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Understanding autism Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...et al., 2010. Activity 3 Updating your knowledge Timing: Allow about 15 minutes Now revise your notes from Activity 1 in light of the quiz feedback. Keep your updated notes to hand as you read the next section...Week 1: Introducing the autism spectrum: 2 What is autism? - This section gives an overview of key facts about autism. Read it through, and add to your notes...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...et al., 2013, p. xii). These ‘products’ refer to everything from physical products to services, ideas, and processes, etc. Critically, however, the way that these ‘products’ are generated can vary substantially from context to context. Activity 1 Are you creative? Timing: Allow about 5 minutes Do you consider yourself creative? Reflect on the times that you have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
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Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...et al. (2012, p. 3) accept that wellbeing and resilience are linked, but they also ask whether wellbeing and resilience are ‘two sides of the same coin or is it possible to be resilient but have low levels of wellbeing?’ They go on to explain the difference between the two concepts as follows: Wellbeing describes and captures a psychological state at a point in time....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...Institute of Performing Arts and also returned to Milton Keynes. And we both felt the same, that there was a lack of opportunity for people like ourselves that had gone out, got some experience and returned to Milton Keynes to really engage and follow what we want to do not only as a career but as a passion. It wasn’t constituted for the first kind of few months, we...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...institutions are in continuing processes of transformation. We cannot expect new stable states that will endure even for our own lifetimes. We must learn to understand, guide, influence and manage these transformations. We must make the capacity for undertaking them integral to ourselves and to our institutions. We must, in other words, become adept at learning. We must...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?
History & The Arts

What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?

...et curieuses, thirty-four volumes of which appeared between 1702 and 1776. The Jesuit accounts of far-flung lands were widely read during the Enlightenment, serving, for example, as important sources for Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert’s seminalEncyclopédie. The contents of the letters were various, but the Jesuits’ mission being what it was, it is...
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Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...institutions, education system, and so on. But speech changes all the time and, eventually, written language will start to accommodate some of the changes that are taking place in the spoken language. You just have to listen to people talking English now to know that spoken language changes much more readily than written language. Think of grandparents and the problems...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Assessment in secondary science
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary science

...et al., 2004, p. 10) that such assessment becomes assessment for learning. Assess the effectiveness of their teaching. As well as assessing students’ learning, teachers must also assess their own actions. Assessment provides evidence about the effectiveness of the decisions that teachers take, so that they can modify their actions accordingly. Assessing students’...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs